Justices Urged To Revive IP Suit Tied To Md. Divorce Case

Law360, New York (August 7, 2017, 4:01 PM EDT) -- A technology company holding contracts with multiple government agencies has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify whether it should be allowed to sue the divorce lawyers representing its CEO’s wife for allegedly stealing copyrighted company secrets worth over $300 million and threatening national security, saying that the rule used to dismiss the case was unclear and inconsistently applied.

Zegato Solutions Inc. and Aldmyr Systems Inc., both owned by Donald Bailey, claimed in a July petition for writ of certiorari that a Maryland district court was...